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These siiecimens are l)a(l!y faded and sliow no dark l)ars across the cheek, 

 l)iit they asree very well with liiiiiiiell's i)late of T. honckenji (Atlas, 1,S2S, ])1. 17, 

 Htf. 2). 



Tetraodon lacrymatus Cuviek. 



Qrov & Caimaki), Voy. rranic. Zool., 1S24, p. 204. .Iohda.n & Kvermann, Hull. l". S. Fish. 

 Comm., 191)."), 23. |it. 1. p. 420, fig. isii. 



The collection contains Xos. A37, M. C. Z. 29770, a specimen 7| inches 

 long from Tikei: A55, of inches, Fakarava, and A63, <s| inches long from 

 Makemo. all in the Paumotii Islands. 



Tetraodon manillensis Proce. 



BiilL Philoni., 1822, p. 130. 



Crnyracion tiuinillensis Bleeker, .-Vtlas Ichtli., l.S(i.'), 5, i). (i6, 69, lab. 20,s, tlymiiod. 4, fif^. 2. 

 Ttlraoiliiii iiiinificiilatux var. lin/iilds Gi's'thkh, Cat.. 1S70, 8, p. 292. .Iurdax it Seamo, Hull. 

 r. S. Bur. Fish.. lOOfi, 25, p. 370. 



Xos. AloO, II5 inches and A130. :\[. ('. Z. 29789, 5g inches long from Suva, 

 Fiji Islands, and 09061, t inches long from .\rhno Atoll, Marshall Islands. 



Color of back, in AloO, dai'k brown, growing lighter downward, becoming 

 white on a level with lower ])art of pectoral: about 11 narrow black longitudinal 

 stripes between the dorsal and anal witli an occasional incomplete line, the 

 complete lines extending nearly to the caudal, especially those above; there are 

 similar, but lighter lines on the belly, extending from the throat to the region of 

 the anal; the lines on body extending on to head, three or four of them encir- 

 cling the pectoral fin; outer rays of caudal black. In the smaller example 

 (A139) the dark lines not evident on the belly; the prickles on the smaller 

 one proportionately longer. 



Jordan & Scale say; "Apparently Dr. Ciunther is I'ight in reganling T. 

 manillensis. with the back streaked, as the young of T. immaculatus in which 

 species the back is plain in life. Specimens before us from Negros in the Philiji- 

 pines show that the black stripe on the back disappears with age. Both Ciiinthor 

 and Bleeker record specimens of the striped foi-ms of T. manillensis, of 10 to 12 

 inches in length." Since the black stri]ies are present as shown by Giinther & 

 Bleeker, and by our specimens in individuals of 10 or 12 inches in length, and as 

 the striped form is of such wide distribution, the presence of stri])es is not a 



